RamaSwamy is exhibiting all the hallmarks of a smart, talented grifter. Someone who could actually sell Kirby Vacuum Cleaners door to door and make a good living at it. For example he's running for Vice President, while pretending to run for President. You'll see him sucking up to Trump more and more as his campaign continues. He figures Trump has a lock on the nomination and he wants to make sure he's Trumps pick as V.P. That's why he is auditioning so hard. Any sane person would assume Trump will be convicted of at least one of the many felony charges he faces in numerous venues. There are two possibilities, the first being more probable than the second:
(a) Biden wins.
(b) Trump manages to get himself elected whether he's in jail or not.
If (a), no one cares what happens to Trump so long as he's dead or in jail.
If (b), Trump resigns and V.P. Swamy becomes President and pardons Trump.
The risk to reward ratio for Ramaswamy at this point seems quite favorable, considering that fools are already forking over cash to pay his campaign expenses. If Trump wins the election, Ramaswamy becomes President!!! Of course this is predicated on Trump being convicted of at least one of the 95, or so, felony counts starring him in the face.
Same thing happens if Trump wins, and the Cabinet invokes the 25th Amendment because the Orange Clown is in jail. Swamy still becomes President and pardons Trump.
There is zero possibility of Trump being able to pardon himself, although if he had no boot licking V.P., he'd certainly try. The President pardoning himself would, of course, be ridiculous and would make a mockery of the Law and the Constitution. Not even our present-day Supreme Court would go that far.
Considering the realistic possibilities, mathematically the odds of a V.P. Ramaswamy becoming President are virtually identical to the odds of Trump becoming President. Grifter Ramaswamy knows this. He is not stupid. He knows all he has to do is suck up to Trump and make sure Trump knows that if he (Ramaswamy) becomes President his first order of business will be to pardon Trump.